Links 11/2/2024 | naked capitalism - TheAdviserMagazine.com

Video shows a baby kangaroo on the loose in Colorado CNN (Dr. Kevin)

US authorities seize and euthanise Instagram-famous squirrel BBC (furzy) 🙁

The Saga of a Celebrated Scientist — and His Rodent Dystopia The Chronicle of Higher Education (Anthony L)

The Varieties of Mystical Experience Book Forum (Anthony L)

Degrees of Wrinkledness London Review of Books (Anthony L). Debates over Mendel.

The Seventy Percent Harper’s (Anthony L)

Significance of the backyard pig with H5N1 Sharon Astyk (ma)

#COVID-19

>AP: Public Health Department Barred From Giving COVID Vaccine MedPage (Carla R)

Look how Covid DWARFS Flu in terms of demand on ICU/HDU. pic.twitter.com/AJyb2mgF3J

— tern (@1goodtern) October 26, 2024

Climate/Environment

Spain floods disaster: death toll rises to 205 as extra troops mobilised Guardian (Kevin W)

No country in the world has recorded as many lightning strikes as Spain in recent days. pic.twitter.com/IHDrNlwuKe

— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) October 31, 2024

China?

China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals Economist

China’s Skydio curbs sound the alarm for US battery supply chain Asia Times (Kevin W)

Analysis: Trade war would hurt U.S. farmers AgUpdate

Prejudice And China Louis-Vincent Gave (Anthony L)

Koreas

US Provides Proof that North Korean Troops are on the Ground in Ukraine Larry Johnson

North Korea test fires new intercontinental missile – and warns it is ‘bolstering nuclear forces’ Sky

North Korea pledges to ‘powerfully support and assist’ Russian army until victory in Ukraine Anadolu Agency

Africa

Malawi begins nationwide fuel rationing amid scarcity VOA

O Canada

Canada’s economy likely missed central bank’s third quarter growth forecast Reuters

South of the Border

Mexico’s New President Faces Her First Major Crisis New York Times (Robin K)

European Disunion

Dozens under investigation in Italy amid scandal over hacked government databases and illegal dossiers The Record (Anthony L). From a few days ago, still germane.

The German Coal Industry and the Rise of Hitler: A Reassessment Institute for New Economic Thinking

Old Blighty

UK Rout Deepens as Reeves Budget Worries Spread Across Markets Bloomberg

Car dealerships in chaos as shock ruling leaves market at risk of collapse Telegraph

Outraged farmers have warned that the Government’s brutal inheritance tax hike could put Britain at risk of food shortages Daily Mail

Israel v. The Resistance

Israel’s siege in north Gaza brings war’s ‘darkest moment’ Financial Times. When you’ve lost the pink paper….and notice they put this piece outside the paywall.

Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale Middle East Eye (guurst)

Israel has all but ended medical evacuations from Gaza Drop Site

Using bulldozers, Israeli Forces severely damaged today (Thursday) the @UNRWA office in the Nur Shams Camp, north of the #WestBank.

The office can no longer be used. It was the hub to deliver basic services to more than 14,000 Palestine Refugees in the camp, including… pic.twitter.com/QFAR4LcPRb

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) October 31, 2024

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Israel wants to enforce any Lebanon ceasefire deal, Netanyahu tells US envoys Reuters. Lordie. We are supposed to take this as a serious proposal?

#BREAKING: Three explosions rocked Tel Aviv in the early hours today. Blasts were reported in Hod HaSharon near Mossad HQ and near a train station in Tira, a northern suburb of the city. Additionally, a house in Tira was struck by an errant interceptor missile, not a Hezbollah… pic.twitter.com/xzVS3HLgrE

— Uzbek Now (@UzbekNow) November 2, 2024

Can you imagine any other country in the world blowing up several places of worship every week for a year with full impunity? https://t.co/0EvpKnVZQJ

— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) October 31, 2024

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IRGC Vows Unimaginable Response to Israel Tasnim. Alexander Mercouris discusses this story at the top of his Friday show. Note we had been skeptical of claims by normally very credible commentators like Larry Wilkerson that Iran had been talked into not retaliating…via things like US diplomacy. After new president Pezeshkian had just been duped by the US into thinking there might be some willingness to normalize relations and had to eat tons of crow publicly to restore some level of cred, the notion that Iran would listen to the US seemed astonishingly far-fetched. In addition, Iran had been very clear than any retaliation by Israel would lead to an Iranian response. So the question seemed not to be whether Iran would again hit Israel to maintain deterrence dominance, but when and how hard.

Israel’s ‘zugzwang’ moment with Iran Indian Punchline

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More US bomber aircraft, warships heading to Middle East The Hill

EXCLUSIVE: Progressives Demand Biden Explain US Military Involvement in Israel’s ‘Expanding Wars,’ Float Israel War Powers Resolution Zeteo

New Not-So-Cold War

The Forest and the Trees: Ukraine’s Strategic Dissipation Big Serge

Find Out Where Most Ukrainian Refugees Fled to Since February 2022 Sputnik (Kevin W)

Russia says it is unhappy with Turkish arms supplies to Ukraine ekathimerini

🇷🇺⚡- Russia has designed the world’s first portable thermal guided interceptor drone. – RN pic.twitter.com/9s1fnKIg4e

— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) November 1, 2024

Türkiye planning ‘foreign agents’ law – Bloomberg RT (Kevin W)

BRICS

Why Expanded BRICS Is Backing a Russia-Initiated Grain Exchange Council for Foreign Relations

Imperial Collapse Watch

The Loss Of American Leadership Competence Viewed From WWII Ian Welsh

Abu Ghraib Torture Trial Against Virginia-Based Defense Contractor Begins Again Intercept

2024

Julia Roberts ad sparks debate about gender gap, voting in marriages The Hill. Lambert has questioned the wisdom of taking partisanship into the bedroom.

Have yet to seem MSM propagation. Maybe anything Epstein too risky because other shoes could drop?

BREAKING: The October Surprise is here! The Daily Beast just dropped over 100 hours of Jeffrey Epstein recordings where he talks about his relationship with Trump and spills inside info on the Trump White House.

This is massive. 🔥

Michael Wolff, who chronicled Trump’s time in… pic.twitter.com/kSB7sYxr62

— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) November 1, 2024

‘Union Joe,’ Harris and Trump all made gains with unions — but not enough Politico

Federal judge orders Musk back to PA court for lawsuit over ‘illegal lottery’ Fox (furzy)

US says ‘Russian influence actors’ are behind viral election video hoax Financial Times (Kevin W)

Texas tells DOJ that election monitors not allowed in polls Texas Tribune (furzy)

Pennsylvania Supreme Court again blocks counting undated absentee ballots USA Today (Kevin W)

Maersk chief predicts intensifying trade tensions after US elections Financial Times

Mr. Market Should Be More Nervous

U.S. Debt Could Drive the Next Financial Crisis Barrons

Almost half of Americans think that there will be “total economic collapse” in the United States in the next decade, a survey suggests. Newsweek

Inflation Doesn’t Want to Cooperate: PCE Price Indices for Core, Core Services, and Durable Goods Worsen Further MoM Wolf Richter

AI And The Global Economy: A Double-Edged Sword That Could Trigger Market Meltdowns Forbes

The Bezzle

The Cult of Microsoft Ed Zitron

Class Warfare

Are You Garbage? Know The Signs Babylon Bee

Amazon Workers ‘Appalled’ by How Execs Made Return-to-Office Decision Gizmodo (Kevin W)

The Decline of the Working Musician New Yorker (Anthony L)

Farm loans above $1M soar as ag economy deteriorates Agriculture Dive

Eugenics movement on rise in political rhetoric, academic literature STAT (Dr. Kevin)

Antidote du jour. Tracie H:

A little over a week ago, at the end of one of our long Monday workdays in L.A., hubby and I found three motherless gray kittens on our doorstep. We left them there a couple of hours in hopes a mother cat would come retrieve them, but no. Due to how clean and flea-less they were, we’re pretty certain a neighbor left them. So we are bottle feeding and, already over-full in the kitty department, will soon be attempting to find them homes.

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